posted on Tuesday, December 27, 2005 11:33 AM
by
bknight
Templates in SSIS
Templates in SSIS provide a great way to create standards across your company or enterprise. For example, you may want to enforce a standard annotation set of notes at the top of each package or have each package come with a standard set of connections or error handlers to speed up development. To use a template, first create a package just as you would want to see it as a template. Add all the connections, tasks, comments or log providers. After the package meets your needs, copy it to the following directory (of course replace %Program Files%) : %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies\ProjectItems\DataTransformationProject\DataTransformationItems
For a developer to consume the template, he must only right-click at the project-level node in BIDS and select New Item. You'll see the package you copied over there and once selected, all your information you created earlier is ported over.
-- Brian Knight